Remarkable scenes show the dismantling of HMS Swiftsure, the first British nuclear-powered submarine to be fully decommissioned. The Royal Navy’s Cold War hero, famous for sneaking beneath a Soviet ...

Britain currently has a fleet of nine submarines, including four Vanguard vessels armed with the Trident nuclear system ...

The UK will build up to 12 new attack submarines, the prime minister will announce as the government unveils its major ...

This submarine name change might seem a peripheral ... On that point, would the French really care about the name HMS Agincourt? I think not. For one, jesting between France and the U.K. is ...

HMS Agincourt, an Astute-class hunter-killer submarine, was originally announced by then-defence secretary Sir Gavin Williamson in 2018. It would have been the sixth Royal Navy vessel to have been ...

King Charles was involved in a decision to change the name of a new royal submarine from HMS Agincourt to HMS Achilles, a move that was branded "woke nonsense" by former defence secretary Grant ...

KING Charles ordered the Navy to rename HMS Agincourt, in a move dubbed “pathetic”. The monarch made the intervention to avoid upsetting the French, sources told The Sun. The nuclear-powered ...

The nuclear-powered sub, still being built, was renamed HMS Achilles this weekCredit: Crown Copyright 2009 The nuclear-powered sub, still being built, was renamed HMS ...

Perhaps someone in Whitehall received a verbal thrashing from our French friends when they discovered that the latest Astute Class submarine was to be named HMS Agincourt, adding insult to the injury ...